Public elementary and secondary students, schools, pupil/teacher ratios, and finances, by type of locale: 2002-03 and 2003-04

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Table 8. Public elementary and secondary students, schools, pupil/teacher ratios, and finances, by type of locale: 2002-03 and 2003-04


Characteristic	Total¹	Large city²	Midsize city³	Urban fringe of a large city⁴	Urban fringe of a midsize city⁵	Large town⁶	Small town⁷	Rural outside CBSA or CSA⁸	Rural within CBSA or CSA⁹
Enrollment, schools, and teachers, fall 2003
Enrollment, in thousands	48,354	7,616	7,330	13,807	5,871	488	3,509	4,366	5,363
Percent distribution of enrollment, by race/ethnicity	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
White, non-Hispanic	58.4	22.7	48.0	59.2	73.2	63.8	71.4	80.0	78.5
Black, non-Hispanic	17.1	32.4	22.9	14.6	10.4	14.6	13.5	10.2	9.7
Hispanic	18.8	36.6	22.6	19.6	13.0	16.1	10.9	5.2	9.0
Asian/Pacific Islander	4.5	7.5	5.6	6.0	2.6	3.2	1.5	0.9	1.6
American Indian/Alaska Native	1.2	0.8	0.8	0.6	0.9	2.3	2.8	3.7	1.2

Schools	95,726	12,037	12,950	21,262	10,763	1,047	8,754	16,964	11,939
Average school size¹⁰	521	644	588	666	560	486	426	265	464
Pupil/teacher ratio¹¹	16.4	17.5	16.5	17.1	17.0	15.9	15.5	14.3	15.3

Enrollment (percent distribution)	100.0	15.8	15.2	28.6	12.1	1.0	7.3	9.0	11.1
Schools (percent distribution)	100.0	12.6	13.5	22.2	11.2	1.1	9.1	17.7	12.5

Revenues, 2002-03
Total revenue (in millions of dollars)	$448,737	$73,692	$67,387	$144,239	$56,005	$4,080	$31,101	$36,129	$30,962
Federal	36,911	8,432	6,219	8,003	3,821	405	3,201	3,696	2,021
Title I	8,716	2,535	1,601	1,610	897	101	721	793	400
Child Nutrition Act	7,450	1,745	1,310	1,636	811	85	662	751	440
Children with disabilities (IDEA)	6,659	1,166	1,010	1,875	787	60	426	387	378
Impact aid	1,096	79	98	207	149	6	169	314	55
Bilingual education	145	47	32	32	13	1	6	9	3
Indian education	80	8	7	9	7	2	18	24	6
Math, science, and professional
development	889	234	160	173	106	8	76	81	44
Safe and drug-free schools	287	55	59	66	31	5	24	23	16
Title V, Part A	508	131	88	111	46	9	48	47	25
Vocational and technical education	575	111	97	110	62	7	52	43	28
Other and unclassified	10,506	2,320	1,756	2,174	913	120	998	1,223	627

State (in millions of dollars)	213,812	35,412	33,810	61,765	26,655	2,119	16,607	20,114	15,839
Special education programs	13,706	2,729	2,022	4,445	1,887	89	725	758	861
Compensatory and basic skills	4,605	1,220	930	1,560	343	16	157	198	156
Bilingual education	583	18	41	398	102	1	8	8	6
Gifted and talented	524	40	57	228	139	1	14	21	22
Vocational education	914	62	86	230	210	11	100	90	72
Other	193,481	31,343	30,674	54,904	23,974	2,001	15,603	19,039	14,721

Local (in millions of dollars)	198,013	29,848	27,357	74,470	25,528	1,557	11,292	12,319	13,101
Property tax¹²	121,714	16,239	16,894	50,076	14,635	981	7,270	7,463	7,676
Parent government contribution¹²	32,513	8,780	3,929	10,149	5,381	201	772	1,306	1,956
Private (fees from individuals)	11,134	891	1,462	3,887	1,578	122	863	1,062	936
Other	32,652	3,939	5,071	10,359	3,935	253	2,387	2,487	2,534

Total revenue (percentage distribution)	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
Federal	8.2	11.4	9.2	5.5	6.8	9.9	10.3	10.2	6.5
State	47.6	48.1	50.2	42.8	47.6	51.9	53.4	55.7	51.2
Local	44.1	40.5	40.6	51.6	45.6	38.2	36.3	34.1	42.3

Expenditures, 2002-03
Total expenditures (in millions of dollars)	$463,207	$78,386	$68,196	$149,404	$57,232	$4,155	$31,806	$37,005	$31,873
Current expenditures for schools	384,249	65,141	57,564	121,785	47,522	3,553	27,128	31,170	25,997
Instruction	237,059	40,845	35,492	75,298	29,474	2,195	16,783	19,134	15,924
Support services, students	19,735	2,857	3,125	6,717	2,442	192	1,330	1,246	1,245
Support services, instructional staff	18,398	3,458	2,954	5,593	2,183	164	1,163	1,203	1,067
Administration	29,421	4,544	4,173	9,190	3,628	272	2,239	2,845	2,175
Operation and maintenance	36,559	6,294	5,525	11,814	4,521	349	2,549	2,896	2,417
Transportation	16,000	2,402	1,939	5,264	2,048	120	1,094	1,588	1,379
Food service	14,593	2,420	2,250	4,015	1,907	154	1,246	1,482	1,090
Other	12,485	2,319	2,108	3,895	1,319	107	725	777	700
Other current expenditures	17,210	3,211	2,573	5,486	1,746	104	971	1,259	1,359
Interest on school debt	11,218	1,713	1,460	4,197	1,518	83	647	689	881
Capital outlay	50,529	8,321	6,598	17,935	6,445	415	3,060	3,887	3,636

Current expenditures (percentage distribution)	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
Instruction	61.7	62.7	61.7	61.8	62.0	61.8	61.9	61.4	61.3
Support services	9.9	9.7	10.6	10.1	9.7	10.0	9.2	7.9	8.9
Administration	7.7	7.0	7.2	7.5	7.6	7.7	8.3	9.1	8.4
Operation and maintenance	9.5	9.7	9.6	9.7	9.5	9.8	9.4	9.3	9.3
Transportation	4.2	3.7	3.4	4.3	4.3	3.4	4.0	5.1	5.3
Food service and other	7.0	7.3	7.6	6.5	6.8	7.3	7.3	7.2	6.9

Current expenditure per student (in dollars)	$8,030	$8,661	$7,912	$8,198	$7,421	$7,121	$7,338	$7,582	$7,507
Instruction expenditure per student (in dollars)	4,954	5,431	4,878	5,068	4,602	4,399	4,540	4,654	4,598
¹Includes data for districts without locale information, which are not separately shown.
²Central city of a core based statistical area (CBSA) or consolidated statistical area (CSA) with the city having a population greater than or equal to 250,000.
³Central city of a CBSA or a CSA with the city having a population of less than 250,000.
⁴Any incorporated place, Census designated place, or non-place territory within a CBSA or a CSA of a large city and defined as urban by the Census Bureau.
⁵Any incorporated place, Census designated place, or non-place territory within a CBSA or a CSA of a mid-size city and defined as urban by the Census Bureau.
⁶Place not within a CBSA or CSA but with population of 25,000 or more.
⁷Place not within a CBSA or CSA with a population of at least 2,500, but less than 25,000.
⁸Place with a population of less than 2,500 outside a CBSA or a CSA, and designated as rural by the Census Bureau.
⁹Place with a population of less than 2,500 within a CBSA or a CSA and designated as rural by the Census Bureau.
¹⁰Average for schools reporting enrollment.
¹¹Ratio for schools reporting both full-time-equivalent teachers and fall enrollment data.
¹²Property tax and parent government contributions are determined on the basis of independence or dependence of the local school system and are mutually exclusive.
NOTE: Locale codes for missing school districts were imputed from prior year. Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding, and missing locale codes for some schools.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, The NCES Common Core of Data (CCD), "Public Elementary/Secondary School Universe Survey", 2003-04 and "Local Education Agency Universe Survey," 2003-03 and 2003-04; and U.S. Department of Commerce, Census Bureau, 2003 Census of Governments, Survey of Local Government Finances, unpublished data.

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